Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1887-02-17

new Nork.
STURGEON skin makes durable boot and
shoe leather
TuE leading dentist In ~. Petersburg is
an American
CANADA is building her first steel steam.
er at Toronto.
CIGARETTE paper is said To be made in
l13 mills in Spain.
SERrrNr-sKrS is coming into fashion as a
covering for books.
Sr lcSscE, Mich, has doctor who is
also an undertaken.
Iris predicted that the new Boston court
house will cost s5,Ooo.0oo
CHuscuiLL has gone TO Algiers To re-
store a break in his health
OBLIGATORY military service in Belgium
Ia to be made thirteen years.
MAN in Pennsylvania has Just sold his
Wife and four children for $50
JOEL CHANDLER HARRIs does all his lit
erary work with n goose quill.
Mrs. LILLIE PRoK, of Olalla, Ore, has
Killed seven bears this winter.
MORE people are crematcd these days in
railroad cars than in crcmatorics.
a LOUISIANA (Mo.) man had the hic-
soughs Tor fourteen consecutive days.
THE limerick municipal council has re-
fused to celebrate the Queens jubilee.
ACASADIAN says that the word toboggan
Is properly pronounced with the second o
. long.
OLD settlers in Dakota say this has bee N
the severest winter ever experienced
there.
THE children OF Apaches imprisoned i'm
Florida are being educated in Pcnnsyl.
vania.
CONTRACTS for carrying the British mails
TO America will expire at the end of the
month.
THE ghost of Stonewall J ckson, mounto 4
on his war-horsc, has lately been seen In
Virginia
lT rs now In order for some Chicago muy-
dercr TO arrangc-if he can--to be hango 1
by proxy.
ENGLAND has practically decided TO
adopt the Lee American rifle for the use
OF her army.
LARGE numbers of cedar railway ties are
being shipped from Alpcna, Mich, by rail
To New Mexico.
TnE question in Europe is not how 10
avoid war, but how to avoid the responsi.
bility for causing IT,
FAsuIoNABLE churches in New York arc
overrun with what the sections call 'reg.
ular pew spongers."
TWENTY-FIVE Indians have just entered
the Institute at Hampton, Va, from the
Dakota Reservation at
VEIN of marble ono hundred feet wide
has been discovered on the road from
Bodie TO Carson, New.
TuE State of Delaware has not a single
Republican official--the only state in the
Union that can say so.
A POPULAR subscription has been started
In Arizona 10 purchase gold-mountcd
sword for General Miles.
hAS RICE, the veteran circus clown and
temperance lecturer, has again fallen into
bad habits in Cincinnati
AGE and its infrmities are the cause OF
the retirement OF President Pickard from
the Iowa State University.
a PETRIYfED human being is said 70 have
been discovered In cave on Sand Noun
tain, Tenn, a few days ago.
CLEVELAND, o., has 2Gi< square miles Of
territory: Cincinnati, - Chicago so New
York AZ; and London, III
WE arc paying annually s75,OOO,OOO In
pensions, and II the proposed now bills be
come laws u will reach SI45,OOO.ODO.
BILL has been introduced into tho
Pennsylvania Legislature providing for
the retirement Of judges on pension
GILBERT, the English librettist has not
seeu one Of his plays acted for fourteen
years, owing TO excessive nervousness.
GENERAL SHERMAN would sink sea-cOasf
forts below the surface of the water, and
in this way make them almost impregna-
BILE.
The Philadelphia Item says never Judge
a man by the umbrella he carries. Nine
times out of ten it belongs 70 somebody
else.
GUssIE TooGooD was acquitted Of mur-
der on hcr second trial at Des Moincs
which she regards as just too good for
any thing
THE German postofice authorities arc
making extensive experiments with a
view 10 connect the whole Of Germany by
telephone.
THE largest coal mine in the vicinity Of
Huntsville, Mo, has been opened on the
cooperative plan, the men paying ono cent
a bushe for the use Of the plant.
SrANDARD time is being abandoned in
some Michigan cities and towns, and IL h
thought the Legislature Of that state
will repeal the law that legalizcd It's adop
tion.
LEADvILaE has the champion toboggan
slide. II runs from the top Of Mosquito
Pass, through the city 20 the Arkansas
river near Malta, distance Of fifteen
miles.
TnE largest thcater in the world is the
new opera-house in Paris. II covers near
" three acres Of ground its cubic mass
is 4,2s7,OoO feet; il cost about 100000
francs.
SAN FnASCisCo is greatly interested In
! the subject Of coast dcfcuscs They have
a plan for the defense Of the Golden Gate
that would call for the expenditure Of S27,
| S6S.iJO.
WNEELNfER h the name Of giant who
il now on exhibition in London He is eight
feet aud nine inches in height, and is there
fore more than foot taller than Chang,
the Chinese giant
RI. sMPsOS, Of 81 Elmo, Mich, WIS
recently bitten slightly on the finger by
his infant child. a week latcr his hand
aud arm began 70 swell blood poisoning z
ensued and he died in horrible agony
Wow,v can no longer vote in Washing
| ton Territory But she can stll 60 % the
fhestcr and sit right 10 front Of tho
wretchcs who declared the female suffrage
law unconstitutional
IT Is fact worth thinking Of that the
| United states Government IL now spend
ing more money evfr ~ year for pensions